Fucking liars. So Lee Daniels claims about his "nursing agency": “I had the first nursing agency under contract with AIDS Project Los Angeles over 30 years ago. I had people taking care of people with HIV because people didn’t want to touch them. So I lived on the front line. That’s a whole different life and something I’m really proud of.”

https://blackaids.org/blog/heroes-struggle-lee-daniels/

Lee Daniels sold his "nursing agency" in 1981

https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/lee-daniels/

AIDS project los angeles doesn't appear to have formed until 1982, officially in 1983

http://www.thebody.com/content/art32520.html

That was the philosophy that guided the founders of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).

In October, 1982, the four founders of APLA – Nancy Cole Sawaya, Matt Redman, Ervin Munro and Max Drew – were among those who attended an emergency meeting at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center. They listened to a representative from San Francisco's Kaposis Sarcoma Foundation talk about GRID, or Gay Related Immunodeficiency Disease (one of the early names for AIDS).

Fears about the new disease were spreading rapidly, so they decided to set up a telephone hotline to answer questions. They gathered whatever information was available and began hotline trainings later in October, with twelve volunteers in the initial group. The first hotline office was literally a closet in the community center, where volunteers answered a single telephone and read information from a one-page fact sheet.

Realizing that funds were needed to educate the community and prevent the spread of the disease, Nancy, Matt and Max enlisted the help of other friends (who became many of APLA's early volunteers) and held a Christmas benefit. The party raised more than $7000, which was the seed money for a new organization.

Shortly afterwards, a steering committee was elected. Recognizing that AIDS was not just a gay disease, the founders decided to name the organization AIDS Project Los Angeles. The first Board of Directors was elected on January 14, 1983.